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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are also sick of me talking about it.  By the way, have you seen the latest Jony Ive video?). Anyway, I'm very happy to say that yesterday I joined

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My ... hundreds of disposable plastic utensils I'm not throwing into landfills

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to ... , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection ... heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  , like there's a quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being to describe ... 't only have to choose a place to spend then next five years of your life, you also have to find an adviser to whom you can relinquish control of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Updates CPW, admitted students parties, the "telethon," and financial aid.

  

  student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. Don ... Washington, DC). If you went to one of the admitted students parties, send your ... A few quick notes for the Class of 2010... The deadline for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  kid, I've always been intrigued by invention and design to the point of ... So two weeks ago, I had a lecture from one of the oldest people at MIT. ...This might have also been possibly one of the best lectures I

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Just 5 Days Left! Mystery Hunt begins in 5 days.

  

  Until Mystery Hunt 2006!!! Here's a little puzzle to get you inspired courtesy of my friend Pete: 100 folks are caught on an island by cannibals and put to the following challenge: Each shall get one hat of either

  • by Bryan
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  decide. No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide. (10) Ohio was stifling. We just couldn't wait to get out of the place. (13) Enjoy! ... The return of the puzzles. Try your hand at this one. An entry about

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  , so I've been spending a lot of time wandering through Boston. Everything below is within walking distance of MIT -- and I'm not one of those ... : very few of the photographs below are originals) Beacon Hill Boston

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  come to a little over 400 units, where four years' worth of "normal ... going to have to take close to the same large number of units as before ... sort of a humanities mini-minor that you have to do if you're not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  about marching to the beat of my own drum or any other idiom. For every ... a university full of former valedictorians, all I can hope for is to ... saturated and shouldn’t I use my college degree to get one of those well

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  always been my strongest advocate, and pushed me to be a better version of ... (which I found to be one of few high school classes that was actually ... surprising number of freshmen did not know how to do these things...o_o” Mom

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  that graduated in June also went on to med school. One of the reasons my daughter applied to MIT was at the recommendation of our physician, who was ... . About 75% of the MIT kids who apply to medical school are accepted each

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  verb (to FYRE in or out of a dorm)"]FYRE[/annotation] form and was ... who were then randomly assigned to floors, most of whom I probably would ... some sort of culture (Bombers, B1ers) we had to start from ground 0 and

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  am: Ah, the bond of the brass rat: At 9:45ish, we began to leave ... members of the MIT community stood on Amherst Alley and Memorial Drive to ... presidents, and the president of the MIT Corporation. Then, it was time to call

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  sick to school so both of you can go shopping... who are you to refuse ... grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH -- day off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A ... good friend. As people were running around trying to squeeze in all of ... goodbye to. Friends that I couldn’t get a hold of before leaving campus

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  they’re equipped with suites of sensors and actuators dedicated to ... ’s no longer possible to wing it. The volume of complex information and ... , find themselves in a place they never expected to be: the back of the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... a quarter pound of fudge to hold us over until dinner. While buying ... point, we happened to be in Chinatown, standing in front of an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005